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Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Urgent: Call Your Rep SEPT. 7 (Wednesday)

And call your congressional critter and tell them to vote NO on H.R. 2832 and save American jobs.

H.R. 2832 would renew GSP (the Generalized System of Preferences) and let countries with cheap foreign labor sell their products in America - duty-free!

The geniuses in Washington came up with this program to promote economic development in the third world -- by giving them our jobs! That’s right – Congress gives special treatment and tax breaks to foreign companies that put Americans out of work.

That’s what’s happening right now to 90 workers at a sleeping bag manufacturer in Alabama. They will lose their jobs because sleeping bags from Bangladesh get special treatment and come into the U.S. tax free!! And it will get worse if H.R. 2832 passes.

Let’s be clear - this bill, H.R. 2832, will hurt American workers and drive American businesses into bankruptcy.

Incredibly, Congress will renew this boneheaded deal on Wednesday unless we tell them to vote NO on H.R. 2832 now! We need to save jobs in America, not Bangladesh.

The GSP law (Generalized System of Preferences) lets products made with cheap foreign labor into America tax-free.

The GSP special tax break for foreign countries is putting Americans out of work and driving American companies out of business.

“In the councils of government we must guard against
the acquisition of power, whether sought or unsought,
by the military industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties and democratic processes.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower
from his final address to the nation
January 17, 1961

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
--Thomas Jefferson